Machine for bunching cigars



(No Model.)

.G. MOEBS.

MACHINE FOR BUNCHING CIGARS.

Patented Nov. 13

Juveni e)" N. FETERS. PnohrLilhu tion of a concave bunching-roiler. 5

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cnonon MOEBS, or DETROIT, MICHIGAN.

MACHINE FOR BUNCHING ClGARS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 288,355, dated November 13, 1883.

Application filed April 3, 1883. (No model.)

Patent No. 266,711, granted to me October 31,

The invention consists in the peculiar construction and arrangement of the yoke which carries the bunching-roller, and in the construction and arrangement of the parts, as more fully hereinafter set forth.

Figurel is a central vertical section of my improved machine. Fig. 2 is a cross-section on the line X X in Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is an eleva- Fig. 4: is a sectional detail.

In the. accompanying drawings, which form apart of this specification, 13 represents a suitable frame-work, consisting-of two curved bars, 0, the ends of which are supported upon standards at front and rear, as shown.

D is the bunching-table proper, the upper plane of which is curved, so that when in'place the curvature of the bars and table is coincident. This table is hinged or pivotally secured near and between the rear ends of the said bars, and a are stops, which prevent the forward and free end of the said table from falling below the curved planes of the side bars. In the front end of this table is a recess, b. The bunching-eloth E is secured in any convenient way to the under side of the forward end of the table, and passes thence over the bunching-table, and is secured to and wound around the stationary roller d, the construction ofthe foregoing parts being the same as described in the hereinbefore-mentioned Letters Patent.

F represents the yoke, having a T-shaped head formed by the arms F, which'arms terminate in upwardly extending arms f. The lower end of this yoke is pivotalgy. secured between the downwardlyprojecting standards G of the frame 13, and the arms f are provided with vertically-adj ustable slides or arms H, having guides h (see Fig. 4) on each side, fitting said arms f, and secured thereto by the bolts which are passed through the slotsh in the said arms H, between the free ends of which is adj ustably secured thebunehing roller or rod I, substantially in the manner described in the patent hereinbefore referred to. By providing the yoke with vertically adjustable arms, as described, I am enabled to-adjust the bunching-roller to or from the table, as the condition of the work to be performed may require; and it can readily be seen that the bunchingroller can easily be removed and replaced by one of a different form. WVhen bunching for a straight cigar, a straight bunching-roller may be employed. \Vhcn it is desired to bunch for. the cheroot, a buuching-roller is employed similar to the form shown in Fig. 2, and when bunching for an opera or a cigar the ends of which are smaller than the body; a concavo bunching-roller, as shown in Fig. 3, is employed. The adjustments provided for at the end of the yoke will admit of a straight roller being employed for bunehing eheroots and cigars the diameters of which but slightly vary from end to end; but where it is desired to extend this variation it is necessary to employ a bunching roller of the proper shape; otherwise the wrapper would be broken.

I deem it important that the yoke F, with arms f, be used, and that the arms H be fitted with guides 71/, for, by the first feature, one end of the bunehing-roller can be adjusted while the other end is securelyheld; whereas if the adjustment is made, as has heretofore been practiced, below the arms f, both arms must be loosened, and thus the adjustment of the bunchin g-roller is rendered difficult; whereas a child can readily adjust my device. Moreover, owing to the distance between the roller and the adj usting device in the plan heretofore in use, there is considerable leverage exerted on the adjusting device, while by my construction 7 the bearing of the roller and the adjusting device are comparatively close together, so that there is little or no tendency of thearms to shift, and should there be any such tendency, it is entirely overcome by the guides 10'.

WVhat I-claim as my invention is other, all combined and arranged substantially In a cigar-bunching machine, the yoke F, as and for the purposes set forth. having T-shaped head formed by the arms F, i i which terminate in vertical. arms f, and the GEORGE MOEBS.

5 vertical arms H, having guides h, said arms a being secured to arms F by bolts passing \Vituesses: through slots h in arms H, whereby either of H. S. SPRAGUE, the arms H can be adjusted independent of the I E. ScULLY. 

